Marc Hibbins

Latest work

The Guardian

I recently completed a long term contract working on the Guardian’s new responsive site as a core front-end developer.

Currently in beta mode, the ongoing project of regenerating the site is built on mobile-first principles, fully responsive, device agnostic, accessible and performance-optimised, built with bleeding edge browser technology and rapidly evolving.

Working in an agile environment, across a number of teams during the tenure, making use of many modern front-end technologies — CSS3, SASS and BEM, AMD Javascript with RequireJS, Grunt, testing with PhantomJS, Karma and Jasmine.

Internal tools making use of Node.js, Python and Google App Engine, TeamCity and Github for continuous integration.

Later I was picked by the iPhone and Android teams to optimise the performance of the internal use of HTML and Javascript view rendering within by both apps — first benchmarking, then reducing load times and rendering speed, across a wide range of target devices and legacy OS versions.

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Previous work

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London Fields Triathlon Club

Built with Django and Twelve Factor principles, full-stack development — HTML, CSS, JS on top of Bootstrap. Initially built for purpose, later redeployed and themed for multiple sites.

Front-end CMS builds

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BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ pages

Front-end build for the redesign of 70+ home pages for DJs across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

Modular build enabling sites to be deployed in waves as each DJ recieved a new design treatment. Each styled with a combination of hand-rolled CSS themes, where icons, colour and typography treatments were shared across the DJs' music styles, genres and time slots.

Working with a handful of native APIs for implementing ratings and comments, also making use of the BBC's Glow javascript library.

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Large-scale CMS

Many projects working with a range of popular CMS solutions such as Joomla!, Drupal, Magento and ExpressionEngine, with development on both sides of the browser.

Providing front-end builds with in-house systems, such as the BBC's Programmes and Music linked data platforms and their Festivals engine, which makes use of XML and XSLT.

Recently two sites for the Aurum group using the Hybris e-commerce platform — developed in parallel from a single server-side codebase to produce two visually unique outcomes.